Ooh, nice find in Bitter Work! I had somehow totally missed that on previews ...

Looks like this is coming along nicely. Playing Balthier and Fran has seriously been the most fun I've had in Magic in years; hope they provide a similar experience for you!

Cheers!

Thanks much for the suggestions, legendofa!

I'll give them a hard look, but my initial thoughts are: Radha, Heir to Keld = maybe; Kessig Naturalist  ^Flip and Savage Ventmaw = probably not. The deal is Creatures hardly _ever _Attack in this deck ... they pretty much just Crew vehicles. So it would be very rare to get from Radha or any mana at all from the Naturalist. And unfortunately, Balthier and Fran can only use three of the mana from the Ventmaw, because their triggered ability can only proc once per Turn. Thinking about the Ventmaw though has got me looking at Full Throttle and Aggravated Assault again. I dismissed them at first, but I'll keep an eye on them as the deck moves from goldfishing onto a real table :-)

Thanks again; cheers!

"Green is the color of travel, which is represented by flash, flying, and haste" = literally lol.

This whole series is absolutely inspired ... thanks SO much for taking the time to pull these together!

Big +1 and I'd give more if I could! Cheers!

Ah yes, Zombies and Wizards. Classic White creatures!

Big +1; cheers!

Oh, this is just soooo good!

But it's the line, "Drop traditional mono zombies on curve, exactly as Richard Garfield first envisioned back in the 90’s", that really pushes in into S-tier!

HUGE +1 from me; cheers!

(Now I gotta go check out some legendofa decks ...)

Also wanted to mention: I play in an ultra-budget playgroup (we aim for ~USD $25), and I spent a few minutes trying to pull together a Jodan Dinosaur deck. Here's what I came up with. It's DEFINITELY not optimal, but is perhaps an interesting starting point.

Also, there are a surprising number of Jodah Dino decks over on Moxfield ... you might want to check out these decks to see what other folks are trying.

Ok, to answer your question from earlier: IMO Jodan is a better Commander than Morophon, just because it only costs 4 mana to cast Jodan, vs 7 mana for Morophon. Said another way: In a perfect world with Jodan, you could ramp into him on Turn 3, and then start casting huge Dinosaurs on Turn 4. Where in a perfect world with Morophon, you could ramp into him on Turn 5 (maybe) or 6 (probably) and then start casting huge Dinosaurs the turn after.

Again, I seriously rec' you check out the manabase at the bottom of the Jodah budget page over at EDHREC (link in a previous comment of mine) ...

I've been a huge fan of Zada ever since she and Mirrorwing Dragon were in Standard; it's great to see her rocking Commander now.

Big +1!

Cheers to you legendofa, for the explanation and links!

I want to echo what legendofa said ... it's VERY helpful to have a feel for your budget, especially when making recommendations on lands.

That said, I often recommend EDHREC as a pretty good way to build a "starting point" manabase. For example, here's the page for the "average" Jodah budget deck ... the lands are shown down towards the very bottom.

There are only a couple Lands that specifically mention Dinosaurs, but they're IMO definitely worth considering: Restless Ridgeline and Welcome to ...  ^Flip

GL;HF with the deck!!!

EXTREMELY cool deck! I've just recently gotten back into Commander, and have been (slowly) checking out all the Gruul Commanders. I have to confess I had no real idea how to make Tahngarth, First Mate work, so I'd tossed him into my "eh, whatever" stack. Big mistake! Thanks to your deck and write-up, he's now at the top of my "oooh, I need to playtest this" stack!

Cheers and a big +1 to you!

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Argy - IIRC, you're a huge Minotaur fan? Well, this one gets HUGE! ;-)

I'm a huge Rith fan, and seeing her in the PreDH format is extremely cool.

Big +1!

+1 pela ótima descrição e desculpe pela minha tradução! Um brinde a você e à Boo!

(+1 for the great description, and apologies for my translation! Cheers to you and Boo!)

I'm a HUGE fan of the original Hazezon Tamar, and it's neat to see this update. Good luck (and good skill) with the deck!

+1!